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“Born Under a Bad Sign” though recorded by many including Cream was Albert King’s signature song. It can be found on the album, which is also called, “Born Under a Bad Sign” which was released in 1969.
The video below will also comes with a backing track that you can play along with.

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Released on the “Are You Experienced” LP in 1967, “Purple Haze” was the follow-up hit to Jimi’s debut song “Hey Joe”.
Many believe that this song is about drugs and it may be but according to Jimi the song was inspired by a dream whereby he was walking under the sea surrounded by purple haze.
An interesting [...]

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“A Hard Day’s Night” is the title track to the Beatles first movie of the same name which was released in 1964.
According to Ringo during a 1964 interview the title to the song was taken from an expression he used to say.
“”We went to do a job, and we’d worked all day and we happened [...]

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The title track to AC/DC’s bestselling album “Back in Black” with over 40 million sales worldwide. It was also the first album to feature Brian Johnson as lead singer, released 5 months after Bon Scott’s untimely demise.
The song (and album) is a tribute to Bon Scott and with lyrics like, “Forget the hearse, cause I [...]

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During an interview in 2004 with the Daily Mirror Paul McCartney stated this is one of the few Beatles songs that actually referred to illicit drugs, the drug being acid (LSD).
Covered by such artists as Jimi Hendrix (in concert) and James Taylor, Day Tripper is instantly identifiable by the cool main riff that is played [...]

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Paul McCartney has often discussed how this song came to him in a dream. The story goes that while spending the night at Jane Asher’s home in London in 1964, he suddenly woke up with the song running through his head. Instead of going back to sleep he immediately got up and played the piece [...]

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The three chord classic song “Highway to Hell” was the first AC/DC song to chart in the United States. Found on the sixth album (also entitled Highway to Hell) released by AC/DC, it went on to sell over seven million copies.
Sadly it was the last album that featured Bon Scott as lead singer who [...]

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Van Halen’s first single, You Really Got Me was a cover of the The Kinks first hit recorded in 1964. Eddie, who at the time was only 21 years old, did his own take on the song with impressive results.
The frontman of The Kinks and author of the song, Ray Davies was later to say [...]

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